Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-01
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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present
The yht blockade on the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad at Houston, Texas, continues,
though men with revolvers have been i'm
ported to take the places Of the striking
switchmen. Eighteen Of the imported men
were arrested yrs.erday.
A projecS il being revived in San Fran
cisco to lay a cable to connect the Uoited
States directly with China, Japan, Australia
and the Sandwich Islands It has been
under consideration for some time, but the
magnitude of the enterprise has deferred
capitalists from investing in it.
Two locomotives and seventeen freight car
were wrecked by collision on the Chicago
g. Alton railroad, near Sherman, H. No
person was seriously injured
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, has begun a
crusade against employment agencies, He
has revoked the licenses OF three on the
ground that they have been systematically
defrauding applicants for work.
At the Arensdorf trial in Sioux City, Ia,
Mrs Josephson and her husband both swore to
having tracked Arensdorf's movements and
seen him fire the fatal shot at R v. Had
dock.
At the inquest on the recovered bodies of
the victims of the W. A. Scholton disaster
the Rotterdam agent of the steamer testified
that there were 214 persons aboard, of whom
SO were saved. The body Of Marcus Wasser,
one of the steerage passengers of the
Scholten was recovered off Dover.
John Most, the Anarchist, was placed on
trial in the Court of General Sessions, New
York, on the charge of melting violence by
an infiamma 'ory speech q week ago last Sat
urday night
piece of gas pipe about ten inches long,
plugged with hard wood, and with partly
burned fuse inserted in vent hole, was
found among the leaves in the yard of the
Executive Mansion at Springfield, Illinois,
by the Governors colored servant. The
pipe was found to be empty, and Cover
nor Oglesby was disgusted with the coarse
joke.
James Martin, well-known farmer OF
northern Coles county, ILL.,, while returning
from Chicago, where he had been with four
car loads of cattle, was robbed of $1,325 by
an unknown person. The money belonged to
a neighbor, for whom he had taken the cattle
to the market
Aterrible blizzard last Saturday prevented
Henry Lockwood and family from reaching
their home, near Marion, Ind, and they were
compelled to spend the night with a neigh,
Dor they left three childrea at home, and when
they reached there next day they found the
youngest girl frozen to death and the other
two so numbed that they could scarcely speak
or move. The house in which they lived was
mere hovel.
At Ashland, Ohio, j. R. Mason, who shot
and killed w. 81. Reynolds, editor Of the Ash.
land Times in Justices Courtroom,
few days since, was held in $4,000 bail to
answer the charge of manSlaughter. C. D.
Mason, brother Of ]. B, Mason, who was ar
rested as an accessory to the crime, was dis
charged. The decision has created consider
able excitement.
Miners of the Wegee and Captina coal
works, at Bellaire, are out for an advance of
Z cents ton for mining
Charles Lane has been convicted of horse
stealing at Findley, O., and sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary.
The majority for the division Of Dakota
Territory will not exceed 5000 in total vote
of 10000. Only three counties in Northern
Dakota voted for division, and il South Da-
kota fifteen counties voted against it. Only
eight counties in the Territory voted against
prohibition.
A severe snow storm prevailed on Saturday
throughout Iowa, Minnesota and Dokota, and
a general blockade of railroad traffic is
expected.
| Clark Cleveland and wife, Of Kansas City,
who have been divorced for 81 years, recent
| ly came together and renewed their marriage
vows
]. H. Font attempted to rob stage coach
between Altus and Paris, Ark, when Detec-
tive Hamilton, passenger, took him in
charge until the robber was left in the Paris
Jail.
| Prof. Wendlin Zimmerman, Of the Nor
NAL University at Lebanon, O., while OBJ
serving the working of steam engins
in four-mill fell into the pit of the fly
wheel and was nangled to death.
/
! AtMarquette, Mich, Saturday night, Larry
Finn, aged SO, chopped his wife, aged 40, to
| pieces with an AK He was arrested.
Mrs. Martin and her two children, living in
small log cabin near Delaware, in Hudson
county, Kentucky, were burned to death
their habitation having taken fire as they
slept.
In enforcing the factory law at Troy, N.
Y, the Factory Inspector finds, in ascertain
ing the ages of children, that according to
the evidence Of parents, some Of their off
spring were born about three months apart.
It is denied from Philadelphia that all steel
mills will shut down in December owing to
dullness in orders, but they may stop ildef-
nitely, owing to their inability to make rails
at the present cost Of production.
| Late dispatches from Thibodeaux, La,
makes the result Of the recent riot, six ne
groes killed, as many more wounded, and two
guards seriously injured. All agitators have
promptly accepted an invitation to leave
town.
/ Aneleven-year-old boy died in Philadelphia